“You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why…” Sometimes when we review all the things we know about Santa – and even about Christmas in general – which have slipped into the annual traditional Christmas package, we might do well to wonder where these stories came from? The person we celebrate as ‘Santa’ draws upon a historic figure. But how much of what we celebrate is fact? And does something need to be fact to be true?